As I ponder the logistics of what it will mean to live sustainably, I have to wonder if a centralized or more decentralized system is the way to make it happen. Centralized economies (what we erroneously called Communism) failed miserably Read more
One of the main features I talk about with living sustainably is that everyone will need to live more localized. This then raises the question whether the governing systems will also need to be more localized as well. There has Read more
Rethinking Economics 3 – A Rant about Corruption and Preoccupation with Money I talked about Les Brown of the World Watch Institute in a previous Blog post VISION – How we focus on what we really Want 3 – population, Read more
“The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want to change the world, you need to change your story. The truth applies to individuals and institutions.” Michael Margolis. I had two recent posts on this blog (Spiritual Read more
I do not see how we can become a sustainable society with the current economic system that is designed to not be sustainable. How can we have a sustainable world in an endless growth system based on money? As I Read more
“The things you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling.” Fabienne Fredrickson Think of Greta Thurnberg’s actions that have made her a worldwide media focus. She isn’t special – she’s just a 16-year-old school girl. There is Read more
“Opinion is the lowest from of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The Highest form of knowledge … is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger Read more
A short diversion from Flow to discuss something that we need to fully digest before I come back to how to get to a sustainable world. Do you handle your life or does your life handle you? Do you use Read more
Flow Theory Part 2 – Understanding Why Flow is Important “Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform Read more
“Control of consciousness determines the quality of life” ― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. The blog today is a bit more esoteric but bear with me on it. Our focus and mindset is crucial to how anything is perceived and how we feel Read more
As I said in the last post, Audience Analysis is good communications technique for well thought out and well-crafted ‘honest’ messaging. Now using data sets from social media platforms with negatively fear based invented news and misinformation has turned it Read more
Collecting data about people has long been a primary goal of the advertising industry, e.g. The Madison Avenue crowd. The more you know about potential customers, the more closely you can match your advertising to their interests and preferences. This Read more
“Don’t say anything online that you wouldn’t want plastered on a billboard with your face on it” Erin Bury I just spent three weeks in the Silicon Valley area of California. I toured the Facebook campus and ran through the Read more
There are some modern philosophers that have commented, “The young do not question the wrongs of adults, they just suffer the poor decisions.” We are at a critical point in human history where our descendants will look back on us Read more
I went online and looked at many varying opinions about 5G and health effects. Like most issues, the opinions were quite polarized. It really came down to the telecom industry and scientists (most that were connected to the telecom industry Read more
Regular readers will notice that I write a lot about how we think and how that in turn creates the world in which we live. Whether we get a dystopia or a utopia is completely dependent on what we believe Read more
“You are not responsible for the programming you received in childhood. But as an adult, you are 100% responsible for fixing it.” Tiny Buddha.com Laying down new neural pathways is a key to reprogramming our brains (see previous post VISION Read more
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor E Frankl In psychology it is said that the best predictor of Read more
The greatest threat to our planet is the [disempowering] belief that someone else will save it. Earth Guardians I have talked with people about why we seem to have so little faith in our own better angels. Experiences with greed Read more
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas One of the biggest problems we have is not all the chaos we see in the world, it is how we live with each other. We Read more
Your thoughts are you and your body and mind. Over 80-90% of your thinking is literally the same as yesterday. You worries, anxieties, and the story you tell yourself is unchanging as you listen to the ego-voice in your head. Read more
When I moved away from being a research biochemist, I found myself exploring and researching about beliefs. What intrigued me was why they were barriers to environmental changes that I perceived should be a no brainer to make for a Read more
I was asked to expand on the idea of chaos that I brought up in the last post. A universal principle is that de-construction occurs before re-construction. Whether it be a supernova or collapse and rebuilding of a ‘civilization, the Read more
“The most important ally in creating a new sustainable world is one with hard skeptics that have a fully open mind to all possibilities. Pseudo-skeptics (of which the majority belong) are irrational in that they automatically dismiss anything that does Read more
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Albert Einstein When we talk of entrainment, dispel notions of brainwashing – this is not a situation in the films like ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ or ‘A Clockwork Orange.’ You always have Read more
“When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change it, or accept it. All else is madness.” Eckhart Tolle. Regular readers of this blog will understand why I concentrate on the communication of topics around Sustainable Living Read more
“What we have at many levels in our world is denial of the obvious.” Richard Jurin Although this goes against the grain for most religious people, we a multidimensional beings playing at being human. We have been doing it for Read more
“Time and Space are modes by which we think, and not conditions by which we live.” Albert Einstein We exist within a field, and this field responds to our thinking, our consciousness. All limitations in our life exist because we Read more
This next collection of posts builds on previous posts (The non-solid universe 1-4) and rational for its connection to Living Sustainably (Transformation not Reformation – Reclaiming our Power is a Spiritual Transformation NOT a Mental One – even deeper down Read more
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself or herself” Leo Tolstoy. I will be going down the rabbit hole a bit more on this post. If you undergo a physical trauma then you need Read more